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LILIUM LANCIFOLIUM ROSEUM. 
Unfortunately for tlie science of botany, and particularly so for the cultivators 
of beautiful plants, tlie lilies sent home by Dr. Siebold have, like many other 
plants, been strangely confounded by the application of several names to one 
plant. L. speciosum was long called L. lancifolium ruhrum^ and roseum, previ- 
ously to the establishment of its present designation by Dr. Lindley ; and the 
one here figured has by many been considered identical v^^ith that species, owing 
to the same appellations having been indiscriminately applied to them both. To 
preserve a distinction, our present plant has received the name of L. lancifolium 
punctaimn from some of the Continental horticulturists, which has, in a great 
measure, tended to increase the confasion. 
That these impediments to the knowledge and distribution of this variety may 
no longer exist, at least in this country, we propose retaining the name now 
applied to it, as being much more expressive of the character of the plant than 
the one above alluded to, since the term '''' pninctatum" is quite as applicable to 
L. lancifolium album as to the plant here noticed ; and although the name thus 
selected may have been used as a synonyme to L. speciosum^ that cannot now be 
the case, since the latter plant has been specifically distinguished. 
In the cultivation of this delightful plant, the same system of treatment should 
be pursued as has been recommended for Z/. speciosum in a former number of this 
Volume. An exposed situation in the border of a greenhouse is found decidedly 
preferable to confinement in a pot ; though the latter system possesses some 
advantages, as by it the plant can be more easily kept in a dry and dormant state 
during the winter months. Under no treatment, however, will its flowers be 
exhibited in their true character, unless it be abundantly supplied with solar light, 
from the period of its first appearance above the soil, till the flowers commence 
expanding ; and the importance of placing it in a situation where this potent 
principle can be freely imbibed, cannot be too strongly insisted upon. It is 
probable that the application of manure water in the early stages of its progress 
might have a beneficial effect ; at all events, water should be liberally administered 
during this period, though this must always be proportioned to the supply of light. 
Some remarks on its propagation are inserted in page 273 of this number. 
Messrs. Low & Co., of the Clapton nursery, kindly permitted our artist to 
take a drawing of this valuable plant, and informed us that, when in flower, it 
emits a most delicious fragrance. It blossomed in the greenhouse of these gentle- 
men in the month of August, 1838. 
